REGINA - Excluded from a recently negotiated federal Indian residential school settlement agreement, former Metis students, who attended the Ile a la Crosse Residential School in northern Saskatchewan, launched their own class-action suit Friday. ``The exclusion of these Metis students is patently wrong. It is prejudice within prejudice,'' said Regina lawyer Tony Merchant, who filed the class action on behalf of the 1,500 Metis who attended the Ile a la Crosse school. ``The exclusion affects Metis people who were not given a place in the recent settlement negotiations. Their voice was unheard,'' Merchant said, explaining his law firm pressed Ottawa for inclusion of Ile a la Crosse in the historic $2-billion residential school agreement.
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